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Neil Gunn’s Whisky Book – Pt. 2

Posted on November 22, 2020November 24, 2020 by David

Whisky and Scotland The Bit About Whisky “To the make of a piper’ says Neil Munro ‘go seven years of

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Neil Gunn’s Whisky Book Pt. 1

Posted on November 21, 2020 by David

I usually skip past any paragraph the starts with: “the word:  uisge-beatha comes from the Gaelic and means ‘the water

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Novels of Neil Gunn – Pt. 8

Posted on November 20, 2020 by David

Neil Gunn did not serve in the forces in either World War. For WWI he was of an age to

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Novels of Neil Gunn – Pt. 7

Posted on June 15, 2020June 15, 2020 by David

Individual TranscendenceGunn’s pathway to Zen There are two doctoral theses on Gunn. One, by Christopher Stokoe (2007)¹, looks at the

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Novels of Neil Gunn – Pt. 6

Posted on June 2, 2020 by David

The History Novels The Remote Past, The Clearance, The Sea Neil Gunn never liked history when he was at school,

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Novels of Neil Gunn – Pt. 5

Posted on May 29, 2020 by David

Gunn’s Early Novels The Plight of the Highlands Sometimes an author’s troubled child reveal more about them than their successes.

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Novels of Neil Gunn – Pt. 4

Posted on May 18, 2020 by David

The Wisdom of Boyhood Young Art & Old Hector Neil Gunn classified three of his novels as ”wisdom of boyhood”.

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Novels of Neil Gunn – Pt. 3

Posted on May 16, 2020 by David

The Wisdom of Childhood Gunn as a Young Boy I am on holiday in Lanzarote in an apartment overlooking a

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Novels of Neil Gunn – Pt. 2

Posted on May 15, 2020May 15, 2020 by David

The Highland Meta-NovelThe Organisation of Neil Gunn’s Novels The title for this piece is borrowed from Christopher Stokoe’s thesis¹, which

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Novels of Neil Gunn – Pt. 1

Posted on May 13, 2020May 30, 2020 by David

A brief introduction to the series I have written few pieces about the novels of Neil Gunn even though they

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